Adam@Home by Rob Harrell for November 12, 2010
Transcript:
Laura: Can I help you? Woman: You got any good books? Laura: Thousands... Woman: Yeah, right. Listen. I need something spicy. With zip and zing and a heart and a bullfight and time travel and a grizzled cop who doesn't play by the rules. Laura: You have very specific...and unorthodox tastes. Woman: Oh, it ain't for me. It's for my ma.
Kvasir42 Premium Member about 14 years ago
Sounds like a Philip K. Dick novel to me.
hlagallah about 14 years ago
Peter David’s “The Suns Also Rose Over Venus” (wish he’d write it, sounds pretty good)
emjaycee about 14 years ago
Former bookstore worker here: on the lines of the above, customer request, “I read a book years ago, it was about relationships and had the word ‘love’ in the title. Oh, and it had a red cover. Do you have it?”
emjaycee about 14 years ago
Oh, and the clowns (non-professional, children’s parties) looking for a tourist guide to Florida because the wife was shown on the cover as a clown - no flamingos, no Castles or leaping whales, no palm trees, just a clown. Um, all of our lists were MS-Dos format and no pictures And when I think of Florida tourists, I really think of an badly made-up elderly clown - they had the photo, but not the name of the writer, publisher or author. They wanted us to order all 300 books listed so they could get the right one. (Boss said no)
Nortley about 14 years ago
Now if she could get Joseph Wambaugh to drop some acid…
OMC-USNR about 14 years ago
Dresden Files (Harry Dresden series) by Jim Butcher.
Wizard for hire in Chicago.
gobblingup Premium Member about 14 years ago
The spice keeps her young.
keltii about 14 years ago
Got my new Stephen King book! My mister bought it for me yesterday.
manateez1 about 14 years ago
@keltii: Let me know what you think about it. I was thinking of taking a shot at it too.